8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

Then, though he heard he was ill, yet notwithstanding he abode in the same place where he was two days.

And Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and the latter rain.

The Lord doth not delay the promise (as some count it delay); but is longsuffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should have space for repentance.

Then said he to the vine-dresser, Lo! for three years have I come, expecting fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it render the ground thus useless?

He answering said to him, Sir, let it e'en remain this year, until that I dig around it, and spread some manure:

perhaps it may then produce fruit: but if it does not, afterwards thou shalt cut it down.

who in time of old were disobedient, when the long suffering of God in the days of Noe waited, while the ark was preparing, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were preserved through the water.